ASUG 2014 Moving SAP to the Cloud Presented by ethods Technology re:invention
Agenda ethods Overview SAP Deployment Options Why Enterprises Deploy the Cloud SAP Customers in the Cloud 2
ethods Profile Global SAP & Cloud Services Provider SAP Centric, SAP Certified Leadership team of former SAP and IT industry executives Strategic Partnerships with SAP and AWS SAP Solutions SAP BPC Cloud on HANA Analytics/BI, Business Suite HANA Platform migrations, upgrades, consolidations SAP software & cloud infrastructure subscription service Cloud and Managed Services Cloud Strategy, Roadmap and Migration Services 24x7 Application and Cloud Management Services Strategic Partners: Recent Successes: 3
Key Factors Driving the Shift of SAP Customers to the Cloud 4
SAP Deployment Options 5
Your Cloud Journey... 6
Why do Enterprises Choose Cloud? 7
1. Pay For Infrastructure as you Need it, Not Up Front On-Premises Cloud $0 to get started Pay as you go 8
2. Lower Total Cost of IT Scale allows us to constantly reduce our costs We are comfortable running a high volume, low margin business We pass the savings along to our customers in the form of low prices 9
3. You Don t Need to Guess Capacity Self Hosting Waste Actual demand Customer Dissatisfaction Predicted Demand Cloud Actual demand Rigid Elastic 10
4. Innovation: AWS reduces the risk and cost of innovation Fund 6+ Ideas 1 Month $250K budget Fail Fast Fail Cheap Innovate WIN Revenue 11
5. Get Rid of Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting We take care of it So you don t have to Data Centers Power Cooling Cabling Networking Racks Servers Storage Labor Buy and install new hardware Setup and configure new software build or upgrade data centers 12
6. Go Global in Minutes 13
How SAP Customers Use Cloud 1)Extend Existing IT Infrastructure to the Cloud Run SAP Test, Training, Demo, POC and Sandbox systems on Cloud Migrate SAP DEV and QAS landscapes to Cloud SAP Document and Data Archiving to Cloud Storage Temporary infrastructure for SAP upgrades and OS/DB migrations DR site for on-premises SAP production environments Migrate SAP legacy systems to Cloud 2)Host Complete SAP Environments on the Cloud 14
Hybrid SAP Deployment Customer Data Centre & Cloud 15
Full SAP Deployment on Cloud 16
SAP Cloud (AWS) Connectivity Options VPN Connection Hardware IPSEC VPN connection between your network and the SAP Cloud Fully Managed by ethods AWS Direct Connect - Canada (ethods) Private network connection between your network and your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience 100M to 1Gbps (From your network in Canada to AWS East in Northern Virginia) 100M to 10GB AWS Direct Connect from ethods 17
4X More Reliable & 1/4 the Cost of On-Premises Infrastructure 18
AWS Enables Lower TCO for SAP Environments Industry research finds that running SAP applications on AWS provides infrastructure cost savings of up to 71% compared to the same system running on-premises. VMS AG TCO study IDC Report on TCO and Business Value 19
Gartner Magic Quadrant Cloud IaaS Amazon AWS Market Leader August 2013 AWS has total capacity equal to 5 times the combined capacity of all companies in the Cloud IaaS report 20
AWS / SAP Alliance 21
Certified for SAP Production on AWS SAP Solutions Certified on AWS SAP Business Suite (ERP, CRM, SCM, PLM, SRM, NetWeaver ABAP & Java Apps) SAP Business All-in-One (A1) SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions (RDS) SAP Business Objects BI Solution SAP BPC / SAP BPC on HANA SAP Afaria (Mobile Device Management) SAP HANA One SAP HANA for Production - Supporting up to 1.2TB (BYOL & ethods Subscription) SAP Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP) AWS Certified Databases IBM DB2 Version 9.7 or higher SAP MaxDB Version 7.X or higher Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 or higher Sybase ASE 15.7.0.013 or higher Operating Systems SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP1 or higher Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5 and 6 or higher Microsoft Windows Server2008 R2 or higher 22
SAP HANA Cloud Infrastructure on AWS Real-time provisioning on the AWS Cloud for your existing HANA licenses. Scale resources automatically up or down as needed. Pay only for what you need. Support for all HANA-based use cases. Deploy HANA faster eliminate hardware procurement cycles! 23
SAP HANA on AWS with On-Premises Integration 24
SAP Services on AWS Customer and/or ethods manages the OS, OS patching, backup/recovery and SAP application AWS Manages the physical infrastructure up to the hypervisor 25
SAP for AWS Services from ethods As an Authorized AWS Partner, we provides a variety of SAP specific services on top of the AWS platform Consulting Services SAP Implementation SAP POCs SAP Evaluations AWS Onboarding SAP Sizing Performance Tuning SAP OS/DB Migrations Architecture Planning SAP High Availability Managed Services SAP Hosting Disaster Recovery 24/7 Help Desk Backup & Recovery DB Administration OS Admin & Patching Account Management SAP Basis Sap Upgrades 26
Solving Problems for Organizations Around the World 27
SAP on AWS Customer Use Cases 28
SAP Hybrid Deployment on AWS Background: Lionsgate manages one of the most prestigious and prolific libraries in the entertainment industry with nearly 13,000 titles, a diverse portfolio of businesses, and an exciting, commercially potent feature film slate of approximately 12 to 15 releases per year. Challenges: Expanding infrastructure and costs Increased enterprise application workloads Lack of data center space Needed ability to rapidly provision servers Desire for cost efficient disaster recovery & high availability solutions The Solution: Performed an initial POC to evaluate the viability of the AWS cloud for hosting their SAP systems Successfully migrated their DEV and QAS landscapes to AWS US- West region Currently planning the migration of their PRD landscape to AWS Saved an estimated $1M+ over three years since starting with AWS in 2010. Successful creation / integration of SAP Landscape in the Cloud Successful Integration of SAP Instances with Local Applications 29
SAP DR on AWS Background: A worldwide leader in the supply of cellulose, fibrous and plastic casings. Viskase has served for more than 85 years as the meat industry's distinguished choice for premium quality products, unmatched service and innovative meat formulation, processing and packaging solutions Challenges: Required better SLA s for system up-time, Disaster Recovery, and telecommunications External auditor identified lack of DR solution Required a fully hosted environment and a reliable disaster recovery site for business continuity Required an infrastructure that can support a global user base for primary and DR site Limited technical SAP experts in-house for 7x24x365 support The Solution: Created a Virtual Private Cloud Implemented database replication to DR database running on AWS 30
SAP BusinessObjects BI on AWS Background: Emergency Medicine Business Intelligence (EMBI) provides HIPAA compliant analytic tools for hospital emergency departments to monitor productivity, utilization and patient care Challenges: Limited IT resources Need for greater scalability Better manage costs by turning capital expenses into variable operating expenses. The Solution: Development of the solution involved use of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard and SAP BusinessObjects. Utilized SAP Business Objects out-of the-box analytics dashboard and key performance metrics solution monitors and benchmarks every aspect of a hospital s emergency department (ED). As of February, 2012, EMBI had eight hospital emergency departments live on their platform. Cloud computing allows hospitals the ability to buy mission critical software and hardware as a service instead of trying to manage demand internally, said Scott Richards, CEO at EMBI. Deploying SAP Business Objects BI solutions on AWS allows us to leverage industryleading business intelligence toolsets to provide our customers web-based, on-demand, key performance metrics they need to manage their operations and business. With these solutions our emergency department clients are able to focus on providing a higher level of service to their customers. 31
Thank You Ron Blechner, Consulting Principal, SAP Practice 416-548-7280 ron.blechner@itmethods.com 32